Defense, Risk & Security

Asia Pacific will drive defence growth in five-year outlook; By 2019, NATO will not account for majority of global defence spend

LONDON (19 December 2014) – Defence spending is forecast to flat-line globally over the next two years as fiscal constraints among oil producing states in the Middle East and North Africa remove a key source of growth.The new analysis, released today by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, features global, regional and country-specific forecasts for defence expenditure, procurement, research and development across 91 countries and captures 98more...

LONDON, UK (11 December, 2014) – IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, today released an infographic with NBC News in London showing the number of attacks in Syria carried out against the Islamic State and the number of counter terrorism operations conducted by the Syrian government.Information from the IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre database suggests that the Syrian military and the Islamic State have been ‘ignoring’ each other on themore...

Providers of materials, capital goods, construction and well services, professional and other services and logistics represent a sizable portion of the economic activity generated by the unconventional oil and gas boom

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A sizable and growing portion of the economic benefits from
unconventional oil and gas development in the United States is being
felt by a diverse group of industries that support oil and gas
producers, according to a new study by IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading
global source of information and analytics.
Employment related to unconventional oil and gas production in these
supply chain industries totaled 524,000 jobs in 2012 and ismore...

Russian defence budget doubled between 2008 and 2014, will surpass German and French defence spending combined by 2016; NATO approaching critical inflection point

LONDON, UK (1 September, 2014) – Of the world’s top 20 declining defence budgets between 2012 and 2014, the majority were NATO members, according to research from IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight.“While the budgetary challenges facing Western defence ministries have long been apparent, it is still striking to see that 13 out of the 20 fastest declining defence budgets between 2012 and 2014 were NATO members,” said Fenella McGerty, seniormore...

To News Media requesting information on the Ukraine/Malaysian Airlines Flight 17:Please find below a summary of the key talking points IHS has provided to the news media since Thursday 17 July from which you are free to quote using the appropriate IHS attribution. Unless there is breaking news over the weekend, our experts will be available again on Monday, July 21 for interviews. We will release further analysis based on results of ongoing investigations as new developments occur.more...

An airliner cruising at around 30,000 ft altitude would be well above the coverage of shoulder-fired man-portable missile systems, which typically can engage targets flying at up to around 10,000 ft.Ukraine does have in its inventory long-range Soviet-era missile systems such as the SA-2, -3, -5 and -12 that would have no difficulty downing a target flying at 30,000 ft. However, these systems are deployed at permanent launch sites that have launchers and associated radars located at specificmore...

IHS Jane’s Defence Analyst Nick de Larrinaga brief explanation of the known capabilities of air defence systems in Russia and Ukraine is below.

Reports of a civilian passenger aircraft being shot down over east Ukraine are, if true, deeply worrying. Details are currently very scanty and it is unclear what or who might have been responsible for the crash.At normal cruising altitude a civilian passenger aircraft would be out of the range of the sort of manned portable air defence systems that we have seen proliferate in rebel hands in east Ukraine. However, it would be in the range of medium-altitude (and above) surface-to- air missilemore...

BAE, ADS, Airbus, Thales, and government leaders join exclusive event on 15 July to talk M&A, competitiveness and opportunities

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information
and insight, today announced that it will partner with Finmeccanica to
host an exclusive roundtable discussion at the Farnborough International
Air Show on 15 July from 11:00 to 12:30.
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to attend the event.
The event will focus on the strategy for the sustainability of the
European Aerospace industry and will feature insights from themore...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Using satellite imagery, a covert uranium enrichment plant in India has
been analysed by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), a leading global source of
critical information and insight.
IHS Jane’s defense and security intelligence experts have identified a
possible new uranium hexafluoride plant at the Indian Rare Metals Plant
(IRMP) near Mysore, India. This site in India will support new
centrifuges that will substantially expand India’s uraniummore...

Labour unrest becomes main headache for government; Brazil’s World Cup security budget five times South Africa’s

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical
information and insight, released findings from its study on security
risks for each of Brazil’s 12 World Cup host cities. The Latin America
Country Risk team at IHS identified theft and disruption due to labour
unrest as the two main risks for visitors.
The study examined physical risks to visitors across the violent risk
spectrum (including murder rates, armedmore...